Taking aim at the mass adoption of smart home devices and telehealth platforms by consumers, NIST is asking healthcare stakeholder groups to join its ongoing project that aims to mitigate these widespread cybersecurity risks.
Each responding organization must identify how their products address one or more of the areas in interest: healthcare delivery organizations, health technology integration system, cloud-hosted service provider, and patient home environment, such as smart home devices, firewall or wireless access point router vendors.
The official request will be published in the federal register on Monday and aims to pool insights into how to address at-home devices that leverage proprietary operating systems that don’t allow for external engineers to add protective software.
While these devices provide an abundance of important health benefits, hospitals and other providers find it challenging to deploy security mitigation controls that could limit swaths of cybersecurity and privacy risks on these devices once they leave the hospital space.
The deployment of remote care technologies rapidly expanded during the COVID-19, with it, the cyber risks posed by vulnerabilities…
